Description

Hig hli ght s

Gra phi cs and /or GUI

Web stu ff

Dat aba se

Pri nti ng

Per for man ce

Sec uri ty

Net wor kin g

Pro ble m Sol vin g: abs tra ct and ins tan ces

Aut oma tio n

Cod e in C

Cod e in Pyt hon

Cod e in C++

Cod e in POS IX she ll

Cod e in Jav a

Sys tem Adm ini str ati on

Pro gra mmi ng: the ory and bui ldi ng blo cks

E-M ail

Spa m

Lar ge Sto rag e

Hos t Doc ume nta tio n

*ix in gen era l

Lin ux spe cif ics

Sol ari s spe cif ics

AIX spe cif ics

Problem solving techniques for *ix

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Copying lots of data - more than you wanted to know

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Building Redhat Enterprise Linux kernels

yes

yes

Generating passwordless, passphraseless ssh keys for use from cron and such

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Checking hosts behind a firewall with nagios

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Some things to try on systems that are crashing

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Linux software RAID

yes

yes

yes

yes

The GFS filesystem

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

The Lustre filesystem

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Run a program only after a specific file becomes avaialble

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Setting up a screensaver to present the status of the hosts you manage

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Using the magic SysRq facility

yes

yes

yes

History of host dcs.nac

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

IBM SP switch

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Sending nagios notices to your cell phone or pager, without getting flooded

yes

yes

yes

yes

NBD and GNBD

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

ESMF host history

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Setting up a Solaris jumpstart procedure to allow incoming stel

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

MPC/GradEA host documentation

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

VNC

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Linksys "BEFSR" hardware

yes

yes

yes

yes

Hanging an antispam filter off of evolution

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

SunOS software RAID

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

3Ware RAID card tuning

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Setting up a release of Solaris for jumpstarting/autoinstalling

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Redhat Enterprise Linux headless installation

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Setting up Xprint on Solaris

yes

yes

yes

yes

Piping stdin to multiple consumer subprocesses

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Enabling jumbo frames for network performance

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Verifying a data transfer from a suspect filesystem

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

PalmOS applications

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Testing SSL services

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Efforts to get a working CCSM3 geometry for the ESMF

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Setting up a PXE server (courtesy of Tim Cook)

yes

yes

yes

yes

Obtaining a static hostname without a static IP address

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Multihop ssh through firewalls, inspired by UUCP

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

A GUI for launching >=1 GUI commands on >=1 hosts with minimal typing and clicking

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Testing the health of registered RPC services

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

A buffered socket module for python

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

The Sun diskless boot process

yes

yes

yes

yes

A simple source code control system targetted at minmally modified baselines

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Getting ETA and throughput out of a pipeline

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Search for the library containing unresolved externals

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

NFS troubleshooting

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

DSPAM

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Clean up messy HTML

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Debugging with system call tracers

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Notify the user when a state changes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

A simple GUI API for python based on Xdialog and similar

yes

yes

yes

yes

Description

Hig hli ght s

Gra phi cs and /or GUI

Web stu ff

Dat aba se

Pri nti ng

Per for man ce

Sec uri ty

Net wor kin g

Pro ble m Sol vin g: abs tra ct and ins tan ces

Aut oma tio n

Cod e in C

Cod e in Pyt hon

Cod e in C++

Cod e in POS IX she ll

Cod e in Jav a

Sys tem Adm ini str ati on

Pro gra mmi ng: the ory and bui ldi ng blo cks

E-M ail

Spa m

Lar ge Sto rag e

Hos t Doc ume nta tio n

*ix in gen era l

Lin ux spe cif ics

Sol ari s spe cif ics

AIX spe cif ics

Adding text relative to other text already in a file

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Getting decent HTML handling out of various MUA's

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Automatically determining what environment variables may be related to a program working under one account but not another

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

QEMU

yes

yes

yes

Sendmail notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

On getting command line arguments to not show up in "ps"

yes

yes

yes

Duplicating SunOS disk labels in a way that may be less confusing to future admins

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

XFree86

yes

yes

yes

RAID overview

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

The standard "nice" program is good for CPU hogging processes. "slowdown" is good for I/O hogging processes.

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Methods of verifying data transfers compared

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Automatically converting select Palm memos to web pages

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Ethereal notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

ESMF data recovery

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Sun E250 notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Converting binary data

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

A fallback reboot procedure when a host is pingable, but not allowing logins

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Mounting readonly NFS replicas

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Recovering lost e-mail

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Searching for files recursively

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

A simple host to host, disk to disk backup script

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Network performance: Definitions with analogies, Measuring and Improving

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

AIX shared libraries: Not the same old

yes

yes

yes

yes

Chopping stdin into chunks, to be fed to individual subprograms

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Convert databases like Sleepycat, GDBM, etc. to other formats

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Why it's important to check for errors early in programs

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

A program for finding the pid of another program

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Converting PDF files to Plucker format

yes

yes

yes

Linux and USB disks

yes

yes

Finding the n highest numbers in a huge list

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Recovering root access

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

kill-duplicate-process program

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Sun QFS notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Sun StorEdge 3511 notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

RS-232 notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Changing a Sun from multiple partitions to a single partition

yes

yes

Finding the largest directories in a filesystem

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

AIX accounting

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Generate reports from columnar data

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Python module and shell command for converting modular units

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Optiputer notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Fast pseudorandom number generator for benchmarking

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Overview of my Sun-related pages

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Overview of methods of recovering lost, deleted or damaged data

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

What to do when you don't know the first thing about a software system you need to work with immediately

yes

yes

yes

yes

pnetcat: like netcat, but fast and flexible

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

A program for computing the average and standard deviation in numbers on stdin

yes

yes

yes

yes

A framework for conducting lots of related network performance tests

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Solaris 10 bootcamp notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Description

Hig hli ght s

Gra phi cs and /or GUI

Web stu ff

Dat aba se

Pri nti ng

Per for man ce

Sec uri ty

Net wor kin g

Pro ble m Sol vin g: abs tra ct and ins tan ces

Aut oma tio n

Cod e in C

Cod e in Pyt hon

Cod e in C++

Cod e in POS IX she ll

Cod e in Jav a

Sys tem Adm ini str ati on

Pro gra mmi ng: the ory and bui ldi ng blo cks

E-M ail

Spa m

Lar ge Sto rag e

Hos t Doc ume nta tio n

*ix in gen era l

Lin ux spe cif ics

Sol ari s spe cif ics

AIX spe cif ics

Documentation about 3Ware RAID cards and Maxtor drives

yes

yes

yes

yes

Matlab on AIX 5.1

yes

yes

yes

yes

Stripped down MTA's

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Local stores/chainstores with Wifi access

yes

yes

Checking a hardware component for compatibility with your OS

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

CUPS notes

yes

yes

yes

Debugger notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

ESMF ratio of data blocks to inodes

yes

yes

yes

yes

ESMF scheduler notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

EXT3 flesystem recovery

yes

yes

yes

yes

Encrypting documents

yes

yes

yes

yes

FLOSS development NNTP server

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Fedora Core 3 notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Floppy disk notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Free X11 server options

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

HSSOE spam filtering

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Keeping backups from pounding a system

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Linksys WRT54G notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Loadleveler problems and resolutions

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Low bandwidth addons for X11

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Machine room options

yes

yes

Maxtor RMA procedure

yes

yes

yes

MySQL notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

NFS timeout notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

NFSv4 notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

NX (the graphics compression system, not the NoeXecute bit on newer Intel and AMD CPU's)

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Netreo SNMP notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Networked Hewlett-Packard printer notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Orange County computer stores with a web presence

yes

yes

PalmOS network diagnostics

yes

yes

yes

POPTOP (PPTP) notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Rebooting an IBM SP2 compute cluster

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Rebooting portions of the ESMF

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Redhat NFS trouble

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Redhat linux commands

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

SAM-FS notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Samsung ML-2150 laserprinter with Samba and CUPS

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Solaris notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Solaris Patch Pro

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Solaris "zones" notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Sun StorEdge 3511 installation notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Sun alternate break sequence

yes

yes

yes

yes

Sun video configuration

yes

yes

yes

yes

SunFire V490 notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Troubleshooting a gnome problem early in the login

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Unix and Linux filesystem recovery without LVM or other volume management

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Useful AIX commands

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Usenix 2005: Next Generation Storage

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

VPN info

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Description

Hig hli ght s

Gra phi cs and /or GUI

Web stu ff

Dat aba se

Pri nti ng

Per for man ce

Sec uri ty

Net wor kin g

Pro ble m Sol vin g: abs tra ct and ins tan ces

Aut oma tio n

Cod e in C

Cod e in Pyt hon

Cod e in C++

Cod e in POS IX she ll

Cod e in Jav a

Sys tem Adm ini str ati on

Pro gra mmi ng: the ory and bui ldi ng blo cks

E-M ail

Spa m

Lar ge Sto rag e

Hos t Doc ume nta tio n

*ix in gen era l

Lin ux spe cif ics

Sol ari s spe cif ics

AIX spe cif ics

What program is active on that port?

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Wifi and cordless phone conflicts

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Writing portable Bourne shell scripts

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Bash notes

yes

yes

yes

Big dd hypothesis

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

bpgetfile workaround

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

dcs.nac boot trouble

yes

yes

yes

yes

DTrace notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Loadleveler notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

oacstats: behind the scenes doc

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Perl notes

yes

Sunrays in ET509

yes

yes

yes

yes

A BSD-compatible print system

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

For displaying pbm images on an ancient hercules video card

yes

yes

yes

An implementation of Diffie-Helman key exchange

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

A portable batch scheduler class

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Increase privilege with your own password

yes

yes

yes

yes

Stamp: An OS signature generator and comparator

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Dividing files up into equivalence classes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Converting arbitrarily large numbers to binary strings and back

yes

yes

yes

Indexing a list of files

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Getting a hierarchical process list

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Setting up mailman

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

An overview of how X11 works

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

LDAP notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

A pair for programs for merging NIS domains or other /etc/passwd-style databases

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

A program to run all processes under a given user, more slowly

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

A program to gracefully notify users when a set of URL's have moved

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

The relationship between malloc and sbrk, or "Why is my program's RSS growing even though I keep free'ing memory?"

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Converting Redhat static routes to AIX static routes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Empirically determining your system's maximum TCP window size

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

OPeNDAP stuff

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Why you should use ADT's in your code

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Generic hashing routines

yes

yes

yes

yes

An exploration of the relationship between setpgrp and exit

yes

yes

loop: running a large number of parameterized shell commands

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Rebooting a hung Sun

yes

yes

yes

yes

WDS notes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Running a single command on many hosts - some programs for doing it

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Efforts to write a device driver for an Olympus VN480PC

yes

yes

A couple of programs for summarizing disk use

yes

yes

yes

yes

A means of indexing directories in an ext3fs, without backup and restore

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Open source desktop search applications

yes

yes

yes

Splitting a file into multiple files on regex boundaries

yes

yes

yes

yes

Testing a network to see what of half/full 10/100/1000BaseT works well

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Network trouble on autoinst

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Running a command for a maximum number of seconds

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

How to make a website more plucker-friendly

yes

yes

Merging AIX libraries

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Description

Hig hli ght s

Gra phi cs and /or GUI

Web stu ff

Dat aba se

Pri nti ng

Per for man ce

Sec uri ty

Net wor kin g

Pro ble m Sol vin g: abs tra ct and ins tan ces

Aut oma tio n

Cod e in C

Cod e in Pyt hon

Cod e in C++

Cod e in POS IX she ll

Cod e in Jav a

Sys tem Adm ini str ati on

Pro gra mmi ng: the ory and bui ldi ng blo cks

E-M ail

Spa m

Lar ge Sto rag e

Hos t Doc ume nta tio n

*ix in gen era l

Lin ux spe cif ics

Sol ari s spe cif ics

AIX spe cif ics

Software for DCSLIB

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

A caching dictionary wrapper around python databases like gdbm, Berkeley DB and ndbm

yes

yes

yes

yes

A python module to convert nonnegative whole numbers to/from a null terminatable string

yes

yes

Searching for a large number of patterns in a larger amount of ASCII data

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Counting lines of text in a pipeline, with a progress report

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

mysql.perms

yes

yes

yes

yes

head0

yes

yes

yes

Generating and comparing filesystem signatures

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

The distinction between hardware and software

yes

yes

yes

odirect - deterring buffer cache pollution

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

refile already-received messages from mailing lists to folders

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Reading null-terminated lines - and other delimiters

yes

yes

yes

yes

Usenix/LISA December 2005, Recovering from Linux hard drive disasters

yes

yes

yes

yes

A script(1) reimplementation

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

symmat: symbolic matrix arithmetic

yes

yes

working-set: a benchmark for measuring OS memory overhead

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

uci-yppasswd: a yppasswd extended to do password testing

yes

yes

yes

yes

daemon: daemonizing arbitrary programs

yes

yes

yes

yes

replacebell: Making X use a nicer bell sound

yes

yes

Looper: Running n commands m at a time with good error checking

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

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